After the race on Sunday, we headed back to Kortrijk for a quick bite to eat and to help Rich and his crew move some of their stuff to the train station. After this, we headed to Brussels to check into our hotel and pack our bikes. We had left the bike boxes at the [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Going home
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Paris – Roubaix
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, we loaded into the van and headed to the Forest of Arenberg in France to watch the race. When we arrived, we had a twenty minute walk from the parking lot to the course. Cleve and Hank went in search of coffee while Rodeny, Steve and Paul looked for a place to watch the [...]
Coffee ride
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, Rodney, Cleve, and Paul headed out for a relaxing ride to Oudenaarde while Steve and Hank recovered from yesterdays ride with George. The idea was to take a circuitous route that would lead through a bunch of little towns. Steve and Hank would drive the van over later and they would meet up. All [...]
Roubaix re-con
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In overhearing the many conversations of the day the words that kept popping up were, brutal, incredible, glorious, surreal, humbling: each uniquely describing our day on Roubaix. Through the week the G’vegas gang had been talking about when we would take the 100k drive down to meet the course at cobble section 17, Arrenburg Forrest (There are a [...]
A trip to the Muur
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today we headed to the Muur to show some of the Hincapie team some of the cobbled climbs they had missed in their past trips. We did a little sightseeing on the way (ie we got lost) but it was a great trip either way. At the end of the first climb most of the Hincapie boys [...]
A day in Brugge
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today we left Kortrijk and headed to Brugge for a little sightseeing. We took the 12:02 train and it was about an hour ride. Steve misplaced his phone and we searched frantically until we determined that it was gone for good. Since Rodney had been to Brugge before, he led us to the city center [...]
G’ville boys beat the bergs…BMC goes home
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today we took the Hincapie boys out for a stroll to ride some of the cobbled climbs that we took in on Saturday. We hooked up with them at their hotel an were led out of town by Och and the BMC boys. They took us out by way of the canals, a nice easy FLAT ride [...]
Crosswinds, Cobbles and Gutters
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today we rode over to Rekkem for the amateur races. The directions we had were not great and it took us almost an hour to do a 20 minute ride. We stopped a few times for directions and eventually found our way. Paul flatted on the way so that was another delay. We finally arrived [...]
De Ronde 2010—Spartacus rules!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After awakening from our comatose state and still pulling Flandrian mud out of several orifices we loaded up the van and headed to Geraardsbergen. “the Muur”, “Kapelmuur” , “Muur van Geraardsbergen”, I am not sure which one or if all are correct but it is the iconic cobbled climb rising from the town of Geraardsbergen and summiting at the famous church. Coming at 15 [...]
Perspective
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So I am finally stopping or at least staying in one place in the last 72 hours long enough to make a few notes on what has so far been a crazy hectic, challenging, and downright humbling adventure in the heart of Flanders. The trip over was like Trains, Planes, and Automobiles, well in our [...]
